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<h1>Mercurial: Switch Branch In Repository Dialog Box</h1>
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<p>The Switch Branch In Repository dialog box enables you to switch the branch that your working directory is on to a branch that already exists in your repository. 
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<p>The Switch Branch in Repository dialog box contains the following elements:</p>

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<p>Choose from Branches</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t18 r1c2-t18">Specify the branch you want to switch to.</td>
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<p>Filter</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t18 r1c2-t18">(Optional) Specify your filtering criteria to filter the displayed branches.</td>
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<p>Author</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r4c1-t18 r1c2-t18">Name of a person who committed the revision.</td>
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<p>Date</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r5c1-t18 r1c2-t18">The date when a commit was made.</td>
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<td align="left" headers="r6c1-t18 r1c2-t18">A message specified during the commit of the revision.</td>
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<p>Do a Forced Update</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r7c1-t18 r1c2-t18">(Optional) Switch to a selected branch even if your local changes are lost.</td>
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